The audacity of hype- Another Unbeliever and Heretic

It appears that Charles Krauthammer(no surprise) is not buying into the Obama Hype in his article The audacity of hype. Needless to say I am not either. To see more links to heretics go to Is Barack Obama the Messiah? .

I did chuckle at his his mention of Chris Matthews:
You might dismiss The New York Times [NYT]’ Paul Krugman’s complaint that “the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality” as hyperbole. Until you hear Chris Matthews, who no longer has the excuse of youth, react to Obama’s Potomac primary victory speech with “My, I felt this thrill going up my leg.” When his MSNBC co-hosts tried to bail him out, he refused to recant. Not surprising for an acolyte who said, “This is the New Testament.”.

In reference to that Matthews quote from the New York Observor:
“I’ve been following politics since I was about 5,” said Mr. Matthews. “I’ve never seen anything like this. This is bigger than Kennedy. [Obama] comes along, and he seems to have the answers. This is the New Testament. This is surprising.”.

Good grief.

It is always dangerous and misleading to put up quotes from Person x supporters. In a sense it is unfair because all people running for office have peole that say the damndest things. I see it in my work withthe Huckabee campaign with our people and as well as other folks.

However I can't tell you how many times I have had a similar conversation with a Obama supporter tht is similar to this comment in this New Republic Article(also a heretic and unbeliever).

Wow, that was an incredibly cynical article...life must be quite depressing with such a negative worldview! The article asks, "what can Barack propose that has not already been proposed?" It's not about what he proposes, but the amount of trust people are willing to allocate to the proposition. NOBODY trusts American intentions under Bush, and nobody will under McCain / Clinton. But there's a spark in Obama, a genuine feeling of goodwill, which changes attitudes. It sucks all the fire out of Bin Laden's rhetoric when he says, "Americans hate you and want to kill you." It signals to the North Koreans and Iranians that they no longer need to build nuclear weapons, because there is no longer a risk of being invaded on false pretences. If you are so cynical as to think it is a strategic error to even ENVISION a peaceful future, then we may as well give up now and jump off a bridge. Thankfully, enough people realise that nothing ever great in the world has ever been accomplished without people who thought the impossible was in fact possible.

Well let me say I agree with the author of this piece when he said:
Barack Obama will make a fine commander-in chief finally depends on your view of the direction of history in the coming years. I cannot escape the foreboding that we are heading into an era of conflict, not an era of conciliation. I do not mean that there will be many wars, though I cannot imagine that the threat to American security from Al Qaeda and its many associates can be met without a massive and sustained military operation in western Pakistan, and I cannot imagine any Pakistani government ordering such an operation. It is not "the politics of fear" to remind Obama's legions of the blissful that, while they are watching Scarlett Johansson sway to the beat, somewhere deep inside a quasi independent territory we might call Islamistan people are making plans to blow them to bits. (Yes, they can.) .... and


So can we agree on a ground between cynicism and myth? Or must we have Camelot once more? After all, being young again is also a way of living in the past. There was something mildly farcical about the Kennedys' endorsement of Obama-of this candidacy that is alleged to signify an alternative to the dynasties, and a break with ideological antiquity; but worst of all was its brazen delight in mythologization. (Thanks to the Obama campaign, millions of Americans now hold that John Kennedy was a great president and that Lyndon Johnson was not responsible for making civil rights and voting rights into law.) I understand that no one, except perhaps Lincoln, ever ran for the presidency on a tragic sense of life; but if it is possible to be too old in spirit, it is possible also to be too young.

I am very much against people playing in other peoples primaries but I even say this as a Huckabee supporter that is looking for every vote in Texas. If I was a Independent leaning Republican it would be very tempting to vote for Hillary Clinton in Texas. Needless to say I am no Clinton fan.

But I am hoping the Democrat party puts the breaks a tad on Obama mania so they can take a deep breath and look what they(and very well we after Nov) might be jumping into